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Merging Maps
I used AS3 to create some fractal world maps which I then used FWE to export into FMP format.
Inconveniently, one of the major continents was split. The seam for the map texture just happened to fall (instead of in open ocean) across a key continental mass.
As part of mapping out the world for use, I was making submaps of the various key continents.
So I have a submap of my sliced-in-half continent for the East half and for the West half.
Is there any way to merge two FM maps into one? Basically, all I want to do is something like:
a) Take West side map
b) Tell the program the map is X amount larger (presumably meaning I'd get open space on the East side)
c) Merge the East side's map contents starting at the edge of the actual West side's data
d) Save the merged map
Is there any capacity to do this sort of thing either directly within the program or with a script?
It seem like there should be, if there isn't.
Inconveniently, one of the major continents was split. The seam for the map texture just happened to fall (instead of in open ocean) across a key continental mass.
As part of mapping out the world for use, I was making submaps of the various key continents.
So I have a submap of my sliced-in-half continent for the East half and for the West half.
Is there any way to merge two FM maps into one? Basically, all I want to do is something like:
a) Take West side map
b) Tell the program the map is X amount larger (presumably meaning I'd get open space on the East side)
c) Merge the East side's map contents starting at the edge of the actual West side's data
d) Save the merged map
Is there any capacity to do this sort of thing either directly within the program or with a script?
It seem like there should be, if there isn't.
Comments
There are tools in FM to add objects together (Actions -> Combine Polygons from the menu), but the above would be simpler.
I just found FWE's 'generate land + water' to recreate the world, although I'm not sure it would respect AS3 database settings for how much water was on the world if I did that.
If FWE has its own manual, I haven't really found it yet. :?:
I did, from another thread you answered, get the SQL Lite command line tool and have got in to prod around the DB. There's some mysteries lurking in the interrelationship between tables, but I can see a lot of things I expected to find (not everything, but some things may reside in program code I suppose). :geek:
So, thanks for answering these sorts of questions.
Go here:
http://www.nbos.com/nox/index.php?action=1001&id=125
If you're interested in doing raster mapping, then go here too:
http://www.nbos.com/vintyri/pdftu01.zip
to download the book and here:
http://www.nbos.com/vintyri/tu01sptpack01.zip
to download the necessary support files. Together, the two packages will give you 382 PDF pages containing almost anything you might ever want to know about FM8.
To the original question, the arrows in FWE worked perfectly for me shifting my map and I got it saved back into my sector DB and life is good. The help was dead on the nose, ed_NBOS.